Proposal: Alignment of embedFile()'s destination storage address should be the Target's pointer size.

[JesseRMeyer]

This allows binary blobs to be ingested, and interpreted correctly as types of size > 1 without the need to manually shift the allocation at runtime (or comp-time) for re-alignment.

[rohlem]

Has changing the return type from pointer to value been considered?
I.e. making @embedFile return [N:0]u8 instead of *const [N:0]u8.

That way the user could explicitly provide the required alignment in the (result) location that is being assigned,
f.e. const contents align(64) = @embedFile("f.txt");.
Status-quo behavior is achievable by explicitly constructing a pointer &contents.

EDIT: Actually the following already works for me in 0.12.0-dev.1139+4d106076c:

const storage align(64) = @embedFile("data.bin").*;
const storagePointer = &storage;

But please point out if this is somehow less optimal for certain use cases.